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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. What do I do now? Was that a blip?

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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

A high retention rate indicates that customers find the product or service valuable and are likely to continue using it in the future. Churn : The percentage of customers who stop using a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. The benchmarks are based on the US market.

Retention 109
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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

Both Sides of the Table

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. Sales cycle length increased. Content blindness.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

As InVision App’s marketing manager Sophia Eng explains: “It is rare for a large company at a late stage or an enterprise software company to be doing growth marketing with all of the channels at top peak performance. For example, if you run a software company, talking to clients at a trade show might put you in touch with the right audience.

Retention 113
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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 2) Market .

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Transforming Marketing With Artificial Intelligence

Duct Tape Marketing

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He's the founder and CEO of marketing AI Institute, founder of PR 2020 HubSpot's first partner, agency HubSpots and sponsor of this show. Connect on LinkedIn.